Great post! I avoid gluten altogether. I try to stick to veggies and some form of protein. Generally, leftover from dinner. i.e., an extra piece of salmon with some asparagus. Or, I do a fruit or veggie smoothie. I go through phases. Sometimes I avoid fruit altogether too because of the sugar in it. Even too much of a natural sugar is concerning lately. :)

I love the raw veggies idea! Love, spinach in place of regular lettuce too. :)

I use small plates for meals. If I refill my plate odds are that I'm eating too much.

oh! i love this post. recently, march 2nd week, i started anti-inflammatory diet for my RA. i stopped gluten, dairy and sugars and dropped 6 lb (3 weeks). not bad. but my blood pressure dropped so increased salt intake. i am doing good from yesterday. and i added fruits and veggies a lot in my diet.

this is helping me, so i am going to continue. but i should keep checking my blood pressure. i would like some more ideas what others would say. thank you.

Most vegetables by themselves would GAG ME. I like fruit but have trouble eating enough veggies because I hate them! I can get them into me two ways. (1)in vegetable soup. I hate veggies, but I like vegetable soup! Am I nuts or what? (2) I like V-8 Fusion. Gives me one serving of fruit and one of veggies per 8 oz. glass. It also comes in Light. 50 calories.

hi livingwater, you are not nuts. haha. i love to eat veggies, but i cant. so all i eat veggies is saute them, in soup, make curries (indian). i am a pure vegetarian. but cant eat them raw. i boil them and saute them slightly in 1/2 tsp of olive oil and salt and pepper. i love them.

eating veggies is imp, no matter how you take it. i love veg. soup.

for sandw. I use leaf luttace/greens as liken to bread. I do not use bread. it's bad enough that my weakness being pasta. I only use wheat.
I use dark but not to dark olive oil as dressing on salad raw veggie dip... re introduce yourself to all the wonderful spices, n lemons/limes...
only time I use ketup/must is in meatloaf. I use just enought to have slight taste of ketup/must
I don't like taste of ketup nor fact that it is sugar w tinny pc of tomatoe n tad of consitrated tomatoe juice n salt.

Read lables n recipe books. ya there r a lot of US foods that I won't eat.


Americans crave n seem to half to have
: grease sugar salt.
On diffrent islands the ture islandors/venders all say that just use grease n/r sugar n/r salt,lol, "americans would eat deep fryed heavily salted shit" at this moment I can visulize/ c these vendors haveing said that to me thoughout the yrs I have been told that by islanders. Plus in US take a look at lables n recipes. yum yum
doesn't v-8 juice have water salt n sugar in it :I

It is next to impossible for me to finds foods that have no r is low gluten (?)

opp's
a 1/2 potatoe is a serveing
sweet potatoes are better. Last wk a freind made sweet potatoes crunchy nuggets.
1 slice of so called reg slice size pizza is actually 2 slices.
same applys to cake, pies... 1 slice is acyually 2 n 1.
I don't like nor will I eat iceing nor sugar sappy glaze.

I know if I have, oh lets say, 2nd helping of mash potatoes. for the rest of dy I will cut bk on my reg cal intake, to accomidate the cal's of potatoes plus accomidate potatoe starch intake.

If your takeing in enough fiber n water then last thing you'll want is whole potatoe/2nds.

I never was much of a breakfast person.... but I've learned to eat a little something in the morning to kick start my metabolism. In fact, I gained most of my weight back when I fell back into my old habits.
Now I jump start my day with a slice of WW bread and a tbsp of peanut butter. I find that the little bit of protein helps and doesn't make me feel full and lethargic.